Top 57 Iris Johansen Quotes
#1. Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
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#3. Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.
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#6. Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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#7. Didn't think of it. She supposed she should have
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#8. To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect.
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#10. I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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#13. My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts
(Sophie to Royd)
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#14. I couldn't take you. So the violin will have to do." He smiled and moved over to the violin case on the bed. "The next time you play, it will be at Loch Gaelkar.
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#15. We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His arms
tightened around her. "But I can promise to love you as long as I
live.
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#17. I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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#18. Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.
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#19. Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill
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#20. Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to it
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#21. But now you have another problem. Keeping him from exploding like a live granade and blitzing all of us." He started walking down the hall. "I've already had a little taste of that and I'm not willing to stand for it again. I'm patient, I'm not a martyr. Fix it Eve.
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#22. They say anticipation makes pleasure more intense.
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#23. Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
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#24. Would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was
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#26. It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong.
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#27. They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.
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#28. After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy ... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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#29. The first rule of persuasion ... " "Don't you mean manipulation?" "You
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#31. Said we'll discuss it when I commit." She smoothed the area under the eye crevice. "I wonder who they think it is ... " He watched her for a moment without speaking. "Louisiana in October isn't too unpleasant. We could take
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#32. I have it. She got into the passenger seat of the security van.
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#33. I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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#34. It's easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it.
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#36. I'd want to hold you if you were going to lead me down to hell. Because if that's where you were, that's where I'd want to be.
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#39. But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.
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#40. In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.
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#41. You don't give up on people because they're not what you want them to be. Not if you love them.
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#42. The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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#43. My feelings exactly. You should be here with me, not in that compound." "Go away, Joe. I don't want you here." "It's mutual. I'm staying. And Galen insisted on bringing everything from explosives to surveillance equipment so we can set up for the
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#44. He stopped. You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you
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#45. How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it ... And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known it would come down to this. Garrett
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#46. How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?
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#47. What would I do with billions? I don't need it. Would it make me a better artist?
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#48. If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.
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#49. Enough of this soul-searching. What would be, would be. She could only do what she thought was right.
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#50. Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.
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#51. I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.
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#52. Her. But I may ask you to let me check it occasionally
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#53. Find Nardik, and we'll find Hu Chang." "It will be okay, Catherine," he said quietly. "I know you're
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#54. He had never dreamed anyone would ever care enough to venture into the darkness to pull him into the light. He felt bewildered and awkward and filled with a strange sense of wonder. And a stranger sense of grace.
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#55. Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
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#57. I believe he's a brilliant man with a monstrous self-love and no soul. Put those qualities together, and there are roots planted for a morbid blossoming.
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